Minutes from Xi Jinping’s Meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

This week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were both in Beijing and met separately with Xi Jinping. Here are the minutes from Xi’s meeting with Netanyahu on Thursday.

10:12 am — Netanyahu asks, “So how does China avoid being hated by all its neighbors?”

Silence.

10:21 am — Netanyahu dismisses North Korea as “an irascible country, created by fools who thought partitioning land could prevent conflict, which dares to attack its neighbors only because a world power backs them financially, diplomatically and militarily” without any apparent irony.